an anecdote           
                                          
 today it rained, and  i would go outside 
 i thought,  so  i smoked a  pipe and got 
 dressed,  and  outside   the  rain   had 
 turned  into snow so  thick that  it was 
 as dense fog ... and then i went to  get 
 the  mail, but there was a woman and  we 
 talked a little. now because i was  high 
 and  it  was  snowing so funny and i had 
 an  umbrella against the snow, but  snow 
 all over my face  anyway, and i wondered 
         about myself, and my life